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Myzeqe is part of the western low plains of Albania
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The name Myzeqe derives from the noble Albanian
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 family of the 15th century who owned most of the land until the conquest of the Ottoman empire. Gjon Muzaka
Gjon Muzaka
Gjon Muzaka wan an Albanian nobleman from the Muzaka family, that has historically ruled in the Myzeqe region, Albania. In 1510 he wrote a Breve memoria de li discendenti de nostra casa Musachi . The work was published in Karl Hopf's Chroniques gréco-romaines, Paris 1873,...

 was the foremost known noble family member, who immigrated to Italy
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after long years of war with the Turks.
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